Example sentences of "rather [conj] one [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 2 | He remembered a big elegant room — whose he never learnt — with wide-spaced deep leather chairs that created a literally hid-back atmosphere rather than one hunched over a table . |
| 3 | Sisters and brothers let's continue to work and campaign and together to create a Europe with a future , rather than one locked in the past . |
| 4 | The reputation and prestige on which their position rested , therefore , was an intraparty one rather than one created in the public arena . |
| 5 | This difference does not interact with junction , F(9,50)=1.01 , suggesting that it is largely a general improvement rather than one related to aspects of individual junctions . |
| 6 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 7 | As Schotland argues : ‘ [ b ] oth economists and the ‘ fairness-minded ’ will prefer … a market characterised by informed transactions with sharp price shifts when the information changes , rather than one characterised by many uninformed transactions . ’ |
| 8 | It was , as it were , a survey designed not to find a problem , rather than one to check on the most vulnerable forests . |
| 9 | The use of new materials and new geometric shapes , shorn of ‘ redundant ’ decoration , implied a lean , fit , up-to-date industry , rather than one revelling in a pre-war Victorian complacency . |